noun

My favorite Red Lion patrons were Avery and her marra, Avery, a couple with the only similarity, besides the same name of course, being that they both went to the same school without ever knowing each other.

There is a widespread superstition amongst Durham miners that they are always forewarned of disasters, often by their old "marras" who have been killed in the pit.

Our own battalion was predominantly Cumbrian, and the men from the west coast called each other 'marrow', pronounced marra.